Contaminated Communities Coping With Residential Toxic Exposure 2nd Edition by Michael Edelstein 0429981023 9780429981029
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ISBN 10: 0429981023
ISBN 13: 9780429981029
Author: Michael Edelstein
In this wholly revised second edition, Michael Edelstein draws or iis thiffy years as a community activist tc provide a much-expanded theoretical foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts of toxic contaminagtion. Informed by social psychological theory and an extensive survey of documented cases of toxic exposure, and enlivened by excerpts drawn from more than one thousand Interviews with victims, Contaminated Communities, Second Edition, presents, a candid portrayal of the toxic victim’s experience and the key stages in the course of toxic disaster. The second edition introduces dozens of new cases and provvides expanded considerations of environmental justice, environmental racism, environmental turbulence, and environmental stigma, as well as a fully articulated theory of “lifescape.” The new edition moves past the well-charted role of reactive environmentalism to explore issues for a proactivist approach that employs a “third path” of social learning, sustainable innovation, consensus building, and community empowerment.
Contaminated Communities Coping With Residential Toxic Exposure 2nd Table of contents:
1 Toxic Exposure: The Plague of Our Time
The Plague as a Metaphor for Toxic Exposure
Contaminated Communities
Contamination as a Widespread Event
Defining a Contaminated Community
The Stages of Toxic Disaster
Collateral Damage in the Risk Society
The Theory of Environmental Turbulence
Summary and Outline of the Book
2 Legler: The Story of a Contaminated Community
A Methodological Note
Groundwater Contamination in Legler
Period of Incubation
Discovery and Announcement
Disruption of Lifestyle: Water Delivery
The Hookup of City Water
Lingering Concerns
Afterword About the Landfill’s Afterlife
3 Lifescape Change: Cognitive Adjustment to Toxic Exposure
Defending Our Prior Assumptions
Perceiving a Changed Status
Perceptions of Health
Inherent Uncertainty
Confirmed Exposures
Environment
Loss of Personal Control
The Inversion of Home
Loss of Social Trust
Conclusion: The Lifescape Impacts of Toxic Exposure
4 Individual and Family Impacts
Coping with Exposure: Individuals
Outcomes: Positive and Negative
Coping with Exposure: Couples
Coping with Exposure: Children
Case Studies of Family Dynamics
Stigmatized Relationships: Outsiders Just Don’t Understand
Neighbors: Proximate Support
Summary: Individual and Family Impacts
5 Disabling Citizens: The Governmental Response to Toxic Exposure
A Dialectic of Double Binds
Communicational Distortion in the Institutional Context
Distortion and the Communication of Bad News
Differing Paradigms of Risk Between Citizens and Regulators
Institutional Contexts
Conclusion and Summary
6 The Enabling Response: Community Development and Toxic Exposure
Enablement Through Community Development
Keys to Enablement: Leadership and Activism
Key Benefits of Community Development
The Consensus/Dissensus Continuum
Consensus and Dissensus in Legler
Consensus and Dissensus Elsewhere
Toxic Victims: A New Social Movement?
Sustainability as a Metaenvironmental Justice Issue
Conclusion: A Radical Environmental Populism
7 The Societal Meaning of Pollution
Denial and the Culture of Contamination
Rejecting a Contaminating Culture: Local Environmental Resistance
Changing the Culture of Contamination
Cultural Immunity: Last Defense of the Contaminating Culture
Sustainability as the Third Stage of Modernity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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